Local Government and Democracy in Britain

by Neil Barnett, Jim Chandler, J. Chandler

Book Overview

Local government in the UK is in crisis. It is now neither local in terms of the geography and populations of its principle units, nor does it truly govern in these areas. As this book reveals, over the previous 200 years local government has moved from a system in which local interests held governance over localities to one in which central government and national and multi-national agencies such as corporate businesses hold governance over local...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526150646
• ISBN13: 9781526150646
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"